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τοῦ δὲ λόγου τοῦδ’ ἐόντος ἀεὶ ἀξύνετοι γίνονται ἄνθρωποι καὶ πρόσθεν ἢ ἀκοῦσαι καὶ ἀκούσαντες τὸ πρῶτον· γινομένων γὰρ πάντων κατὰ τὸν λόγον τόνδε ἀπείροισιν ἐοίκασι, πειρώμενοι καὶ ἐπέων καὶ ἔργων τοιούτων, ὁκοίων ἐγὼ διηγεῦμαι διαιρέων ἕκαστον κατὰ φύσιν καὶ φράζων ὅκως ἔχει. τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους ἀνθρώπους λανθάνει ὁκόσα ἐγερθέντες ποιοῦσιν, ὄκωσπερ ὁκόσα εὕδοντες ἐπιλανθάνονται.
Though this Word is true evermore, yet men are as unable to understand it when they hear it for the first time as before they have heard it at all. For, though all things come to pass in accordance with this Word, men seem as if they had no experience of them, when they make trial of words and deeds such as I set forth, dividing each thing according to its nature and showing how it truly is. But other men know not what they are doing when awake, even as they forget what they do in sleep.
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διὸ δεῖ ἕπεσθαι τῷ ξυνῷ. ζώουσιν οἱ πολλοὶ ὡς ἰδίαν ἔχοντες φρόνησιν.
So we must follow the common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
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as the width of a human foot.
Arthur Fairbanks · The First Philosophers of Greece (1898; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons printing), p. 62How this fragment survives
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1922). Digital text: Open Greek and Latin, First1KGreek
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The quoted phrase is excerpted exactly from Fairbanks’s Aëtius report. Fairbanks’s introductory “It is as great” is excluded to match the existing Greek phrase. The transmitting source identifies the subject as the sun.
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Si felicitas esset in delectationibus corporis, boves felices diceremus, cum inveniant orobum ad comedendum.
Bestände das Glück in körperlichen Lustgefühlen, so müßte man die Ochsen glücklich nennen, wenn sie Erbsen zu fressen finden.
German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906)How this fragment survives
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καθαίρονται δ’ ἄλλως αἵματι μιαινόμενοι οἶον εἴ τις εἰς πηλὸν ἐμβὰς πηλῶι ἀπονίζοιτο. μαίνεσθαι δ’ ἂν δοκοίη, εἴ τις αὐτὸν ἀνθρώπων ἐπιφράσαιτο οὕτω ποιέοντα. καὶ τοῖς ἀγάλμασι δὲ τουτέοισιν εὔχονται, ὁκοῖον εἴ τις δόμοισι λεσχηνεύοιτο, οὔ τι γινώσκων θεοὺς οὐδ’ ἥρωας οἵτινές εἰσι.
They vainly purify themselves by defiling themselves with blood, just as if one who had stepped into the mud were to wash his feet in mud. Any man who marked him doing thus, would deem him mad.
And they pray to these images, as if one were to talk with a man’s house, knowing not what gods or heroes are.
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ὁ ἥλιος … νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρηι ἐστίν.
The sun is new every day.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
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εἰ πάντα τὰ ὄντα καπνὸς γένοιτο, ῥῖνες ἂν διαγνοῖεν.
If all things were turned to smoke, the nostrils would distinguish them.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Aristotle
On Sense and Sensible Objects · 5. 443a 23
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[46] — eth. Nic. Θ 2. 1155b 4 Ἡ. τὸ ἀντίξουν συμφέρον καὶ ἐκ τῶν διαφερόντων καλλίστην ἁρμονίαν καὶ πάντα κατ’ ἔριν γίνεσθαι [s. Β 80].
Opposition unites. From what draws apart results the most beautiful harmony. All things take place by strife.
Arthur Fairbanks · Arthur Fairbanks, The First Philosophers of Greece (1898), Herakleitos fragmentsHow this fragment survives
- Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics · Θ 2. 1155b 4
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ὄνους σύρματ’ ἂν ἑλέσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ χρυσόν
Asses would rather have straw than gold.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics · K. 5. 1176a 7
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συνάψιες ὅλα καὶ οὐχ ὅλα, συμφερόμενον διαφερόμένον, συνᾶιδον διᾶιδον, καὶ ἐκ πάντων ἓν καὶ ἐξ ἑνὸς πάντα.
Couples are things whole and things not whole, what is drawn together and what is drawn asunder, the harmonious and the discordant. The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one.
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πᾶν γὰρ ἑρπετὸν πληγῆι νέμεται
Every beast is driven to pasture with blows.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
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ποταμοῖσι τοῖσιν αὐτοῖσιν ἐμβαίνουσιν ἕτερα καὶ ἕτερα ὕδατα ἐπιρρεῖ· καὶ ψυχαὶ δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν ὑγρῶν ἀναθυμιῶνται
“To those entering the same river, other and still other waters flow.” And souls are exhalations from moisture.
George Thomas White Patrick · The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature (Baltimore: N. Murray, 1889), p. 94How this fragment survives
- Eusebius of Caesarea
Preparation for the Gospel · XV 20
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Arius Did. ap. Eus. P. E. XV 20
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1922). Digital text: Open Greek and Latin, First1KGreek
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δεῖ γὰρ τὸν χαρίεντα μήτε ῥυπᾶν μήτε αὐχμεῖν μήτε βορβόρωι χαίρειν καθ’ Ἡράκλειτον.
ὕες γοῦν βορβόρῳ ἥδονται μᾶλλον ἢ καθαρῷ ὕδατι.
For a well-bred man ought not to be dirty nor squalid, nor to be all over mud, as Heraclitus says.
"Swine, for instance, delight in dirt more than in clean water."
C. D. Yonge; William Wilson · Yonge, Athenaeus (1854); Wilson, Clement, Ante-Nicene Fathers II (1885)How this fragment survives
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Athenaeus V 178F: Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition (1922), Heraclitus B 13. Clement, Stromata I.1.2: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus, volume II (1906), Perseus transcription.
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Published passage: Athenaeus V.178f; Clement, Stromata I.2
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νυκτιπόλοις, μάγοις, βάκχοις, λήναις, μύσταις
τὰ γὰρ νομιζόμενα κατ’ ἀνθρώπους μυστήρια ἀνιερωστὶ μυεῦνται.
Night-walkers, Magians, priests of Bakchos and priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers....
The mysteries practised among men are unholy mysteries.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
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εἰ μὴ γὰρ Διονύσωι πομπὴν ἐποιοῦντο καὶ ὕμνεον ἆισμα αἰδοίοισιν, ἀναιδέστατα εἴργαστ’ ἂν· ὡυτὸς δὲ Ἀίδης καὶ Διόνυσος, ὅτεωι μαίνονται καὶ ληναΐζουσιν.
For if it were not to Dionysos that they made a procession and sang the shameful phallic hymn, they would be acting most shamelessly. But Hades is the same as Dionysos in whose honour they go mad and keep the feast of the wine-vat.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Clement of Alexandria
Exhortation to the Greeks · 34 p. 26, 6
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— — 34 p. 26, 6
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τὸ μὴ δῦνόν ποτε πῶς ἄν τις λάθοι;
How can one hide from that which never sets?
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Clement of Alexandria
The Instructor · II 99
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— Paedag. II 99
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- Clem. Protr. 22
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οὐ γὰρ φρονέουσι τοιαῦτα πολλοί, ὁκόσοι ἐγκυρεῦσιν, οὐδὲ μαθόντες γινώσκουσιν, ἑωυτοῖσι δὲ δοκέουσι.
The many do not take heed of such things as those they meet with, nor do they mark them when they are taught, though they think they do.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Clement of Alexandria
Stromata · II 8
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— Strom. II 8
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- Clem. Protr. 22
- — Paedag. II 99
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ἐὰν μὴ ἔλπηται, ἀνέλπιστον οὐκ ἐξευρήσει, ἀνεξερεύνητον ἐὸν καὶ ἄπορον.
If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Clement of Alexandria
Stromata · II 17
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—— II 17
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- Clem. Protr. 22
- — Paedag. II 99
- — Strom. II 8
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ἀκοῦσαι οὐκ ἐπιστάμενοι οὐδ’ εἰπεῖν.
Knowing not how to listen nor how to speak.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
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γενόμενοι ζώειν ἐθέλουσι μόρους τ’ ἔχειν, μᾶλλον δὲ ἀναπαύεσθαι, καὶ παῖδας καταλείπουσι μόρους γενέσθαι.
When they are born, they wish to live and to meet with their dooms—or rather to rest—and they leave children behind them to meet with their dooms in turn.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Clement of Alexandria
Stromata · III 14
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—— III 14
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- Clem. Strom. II (II 126, 5)
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θάνατός ἐστιν ὁκόσα ἐγερθέντες ὁρέομεν, ὁκόσα δὲ εὕδοντες ὕπνος.
All the things we see when awake are death, even as all we see in slumber are sleep.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Clement of Alexandria
Stromata · 21
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χρυσὸν γὰρ οἱ διζήμενοι γῆν πολλὴν ὀρύσσουσι καὶ εὑρίσκουσιν ὀλίγον.
Those who seek for gold dig up much earth and find a little.
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- Clement of Alexandria
Stromata · IV 4
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Δίκης ὄνομα οὐκ ἂν ἤιδεσαν, εἰ ταῦτα μὴ ἦν.
Men would not have known the name of justice if these things were not.
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ἀρηιφάτους θεοὶ τιμῶσι καὶ ἄνθρωποι.
Gods and men honour those who are slain in battle.
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μόροι γὰρ μέζονες μέζονας μοίρας λαγχάνουσι.
Greater deaths win greater portions.
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[77] ——— 143 (II 310, 21) ἄνθρωπος ἐν εὐφρόνηι φάος ἅπτεται ἑαυτῶι ἀποθανών, [ἀποσβεσθεὶς ὄψεις], ζῶν δέ· ἅπτεται τεθνεῶτος εὕδων, ἀποσβεσθεὶς ὄψεις, ἐγρηγορὼς ἅπτεται εὕδοντος.
"Man touches night in himself, when dead and his light quenched; and alive, when he sleeps he touches the dead; and awake, when he shuts his eyes, he touches the sleeper."
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Published passage: Clement, Stromata 4.22 (DK 4.143)
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ἀνθρώπους μένει ἀποθανόντας ἅσσα οὐκ ἔλπονται οὐδὲ δοκέουσιν.
There awaits men when they die such things as they look not for nor dream of.
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δοκέοντα γὰρ ὁ δοκιμώτατος γινώσκει, [φυλάσσει]· καὶ μέντοι καὶ Δίκη καταλήψεται ψευδῶν τέκτονας καὶ μάρτυρας.
The most esteemed of them knows but fancies; yet of a truth justice shall overtake the artificers of lies and the false witnesses.
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67097/67097-h/67097-h.htm#f363
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αἱρεῦνται γὰρ ἕν ἀντὶ ἁπάντων οἱ ἄριστοι, κλέος ἀέναον θνητῶν, οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ κεκόρηνται ὅκωςπερ κτήνεα.
For even the best of them choose one thing above all others, immortal glory among mortals, while most of them are glutted like beasts.
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κόσμον τόνδε, τὸν αὐτὸν ἁπάντων, οὔτε τις θεῶν οὔτε ἀνθρώπων ἐποίησεν, ἀλλ’ ἧν ἀεὶ καὶ ἔστιν καὶ ἔσται πῦρ ἀείζωον, ἁπτόμενον μέτρα καὶ ἀποσβεννύμενον μέτρα.
This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made; but it was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living Fire, with measures kindling, and measures going out.
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πυρὸς τροπαὶ πρῶτον θάλασσα, θαλάσσης δὲ τὸ μὲν ἥμισυ γῆ, τὸ δὲ ἥμισυ πρηστήρ.
θάλασσα διαχέεται καὶ μετρέεται εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον, ὁκοῖος πρόσθεν ἦν ἢ γενέσθαι γῆ.
The transformations of Fire are, first of all, sea; and half of the sea is earth, half whirlwind. ...
It becomes liquid sea, and is measured by the same tale as before it became earth.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Clement of Alexandria
Stromata
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—— (II 396, 13)
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition (1922), Diels 1922, fragment 31; historical running text, Open Greek and Latin / First 1KGreek transcription.
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ἕν τὸ σοφὸν μοῦνον λέγεσθαι οὐκ ἐθέλει καὶ ἐθέλει Ζηνὸς ὄνομα.
The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Clement of Alexandria
Stromata · 116
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—— 116
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- Clem. Strom. V 105
- —— (II 396, 13)
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νόμος καὶ βουλῆι πείθεσθαι ἑνός.
And it is law, too, to obey the counsel of one.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Clement of Alexandria
Stromata · 116
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ἀξύνετοι ἀκούσαντες κωφοῖσιν ἐοίκασι· φάτις αὐτοῖσιν μαρτυρεῖ παρεόντας ἀπεῖναι.
Fools when they do hear are like the deaf: of them does the saying bear witness that they are absent when present.
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- Clement of Alexandria
Stromata · 116
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———
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χρὴ γὰρ εὖ μάλα πολλῶν ἵστορας φιλοσόφους ἄνδρας εἶναι.
Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Clement of Alexandria
Stromata · 141
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—— 141
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ψυχῆισιν θάνατος ὕδωρ γενέσθαι, ὕδατι δὲ θάνατος γῆν γενέσθαι, ἐκ γῆς δὲ ὕδωρ γίνεται, ἐξ ὕδατος δὲ ψυχή.
For it is death to souls to become water, and death to water to become earth. But water comes from earth; and from water, soul.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Clement of Alexandria
Stromata · VI 16
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—— VI 16
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sues caeno [vgl. B 13], cohortales aves pulvere vel cinere lavari.
Säue baden sich in Kot, Geflügel in Staub oder Asche.
German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906)How this fragment survives
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Columella VIII 4 si modo credimus Ephesio Heracleto qui ait sues caeno [vgl. B 13] , cohortales aves pulvere vel cinere lavari.
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δοκεῖ δὲ κατά τινας πρῶτος ἀστρολογῆσαι . . . μαρτυρεῖ δ’ αὐτῶι καὶ Ἡ καὶ Δημόκριτος.
He (scil. Thales) seems, according to some, to have been the first to study astronomy … and both Heraclitus and Democritus bear witness to him.
George Thomas White Patrick · The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature (Baltimore: N. Murray, 1889), p. 92How this fragment survives
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ἐν Πριήνηι Βίας ἐγένετο ὁ Τευτάμεω, οὗ πλείων λόγος ἢ τῶν ἄλλων.
In Priene lived Bias, son of Teutamas, who is of more account than the rest.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Diogenes Laertius
Lives of Eminent Philosophers · Ι 88
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πολυμαθίη νόον ἔχειν οὐ διδάσκει· Ἡσίοδον γὰρ ἂν ἐδίδαξε καὶ Πυθαγόρην αὖτίς τε Ξενοφάνεά τε καὶ Ἑκαταῖον.
The learning of many things teacheth not understanding, else would it have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, and again Xenophanes and Hekataios.
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εἶναι γὰρ ἓν τὸ σοφόν, ἐπίστασθαι γνώμην, ὁτέη ἐκυβέρνησε πάντα διὰ πάντων.
Wisdom is one thing. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
- Diogenes Laertius
Lives of Eminent Philosophers · IX 1
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τόν τε Ὅμηρον ἔφασκεν ἄξιον ἐκ τῶν ἀγώνων ἐκβάλλεσθαι καὶ ῥαπίζεσθαι καὶ Ἀρχίλοχον ὁμοίως.
Homer should be turned out of the lists and whipped, and Archilochos likewise.
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- Diogenes Laertius
Lives of Eminent Philosophers · IX 1
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ὕβριν χρὴ σβεννύναι μᾶλλον ἢ πυρκαϊήν.
Wantonness needs putting out, even more than a house on fire.
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- Diogenes Laertius
Lives of Eminent Philosophers · 2
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μάχεσθαι χρὴ τὸν δῆμον ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου ὅκωσπερ τείχεος.
The people must fight for its law as for its walls.
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Lives of Eminent Philosophers · 2
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ψυχῆς πείρατα ἰὼν οὐκ ἂν ἐξεύροιο, πᾶσαν ἐπιπορευόμενος ὁδὸν· οὕτω βαθὺν λόγον ἔχει.
You will not find the boundaries of soul by travelling in any direction, so deep is the measure of it.
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Lives of Eminent Philosophers · 7
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[132] —— τήν τε οἴησιν ἱερὰν νόσον ἔλεγε καὶ τὴν ὅρασιν ψεύδεσθαι.
He was wont to say that false opinion is a sacred disease, and that vision is deceitful.
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μὴ εἰκῆ περὶ τῶν μεγίστων συμβαλλώμεθα.
Let us not conjecture at random about the greatest things.
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τῶι οὖν τόξωι ὄνομα βίος, ἔργον δὲ θάνατος.
The bow (βιός) is called life (βίος), but its work is death.
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εἷς ἐμοὶ μύριοι, ἐὰν ἄριστος ἦι.
One is ten thousand to me, if he be the best.
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On the Diagnosis of Pulses · VIII 773 (Kühn)
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ποταμοῖς τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν.
We step and do not step into the same rivers; we are and are not.
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οὐκ ἐμοῦ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ λόγου ἀκούσαντας ὁμολογεῖν σοφόν ἐστιν ἓν πάντα εἶναι
It is wise to hearken, not to me, but to my Word, and to confess that all things are one.
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οὐ ξυνιᾶσιν ὅκως διαφερόμενον ἑωυτῶι ὁμολογέει· παλίντονος ἁρμονίη ὅκωσπερ τόξου καὶ λύρης.
Men do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.
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- Hippolytus
Refutation of All Heresies · IX 9
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αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεττεύων· παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη.
Time is a child playing draughts, the kingly power is a child’s.
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Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι, πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἄδειξε τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ ἐλευθέρους.
War is the father of all and the king of all; and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free.
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IX 9
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ἁρμονίη ἀφανὴς φανερῆς κρείττων.
The hidden attunement is better than the open.
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IX 9
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ὅσων ὄψις ἀκοὴ μάθησις, ταῦτα ἐγὼ προτιμέω.
The things that can be seen, heard, and learned are what I prize the most.
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IX 9
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ἐξηπάτηνται, φησίν, οἱ ἄνθρωποι πρὸς τὴν γνῶσιν τῶν φανερῶν παραπλησίως Ὁμήρωι, ὃς ἐγένετο τῶν Ἑλλήνων σοφώτερος πάντων. ἐκεῖνόν τε γὰρ παῖδες φθεῖρας κατακτείνοντες ἐξηπάτησαν εἰπόντες· ὅσα εἴδομεν καὶ ἐλάβομεν, ταῦτα ἀπολείπομεν, ὅσα δὲ οὔτε εἴδομεν οὔτ’ ἐλάβομεν, ταῦτα φέρομεν.
"Men," he says, "are deceived in reference to the knowledge of manifest things similarly with Homer, who was wiser than all the Greeks. For even children killing vermin deceived him, when they said, What we have seen and seized, these we leave behind; whereas what we neither have seen nor seized, these we carry away.'"
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ἐξηπάτηνται, φησίν, οἱ ἄνθρωποι πρὸς τὴν γνῶσιν τῶν φανερῶν παραπλησίως Ὁμήρωι, ὃς ἐγένετο τῶν Ἑλλήνων σοφώτερος πάντων. ἐκεῖνόν τε γὰρ παῖδες φθεῖρας κατακτείνοντες ἐξηπάτησαν εἰπόντες· ὅσα εἴδομεν καὶ ἐλάβομεν, ταῦτα ἀπολείπομεν, ὅσα δὲ οὔτε εἴδομεν οὔτ’ ἐλάβομεν, ταῦτα φέρομεν.
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διδάσκαλος δὲ πλείστων Ἡσίοδος· τοῦτον ἐπίστανται πλεῖστα εἰδέναι, ὅστις ἡμέρην καὶ εὐφρόνην οὐκ ἐγίνωσκεν· ἔστι γὰρ ἕν.
Hesiod is most men’s teacher. Men think he knew very many things, a man who did not know day or night! They are one.
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οἱ ἰατροὶ τέμνοντες καίοντες πάντη βασανίζοντες κακῶς τοὺς ἀρρωστοῦντας ἐπαιτιῶνται μηδέν’ ἄξιον μισθὸν λαμβάνειν παρὰ τῶν ἀρρωστούντων.
(Good and bad are one; at any rate, as Herakleitos says) physicians, who cut and burn and in every way torment the sick, complain that they do not receive any adequate recompense from them.
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—— καὶ ἀγαθὸν καὶ κακόν [näml. ἕν ἐστιν]. οἱ γοῦν ἰατροί, φησὶν ὁ Ἡ., τέμνοντες, καίοντες πάντη, βασανίζοντες κακῶς τοὺς ἀρρωστοῦντας, ἐπαιτέονται μηδὲν ἄξιοι μισθὸν λαμβάνειν παρὰ τῶν ἀρρωστούντων, ταὐτὰ ἐργαζόμενοι, τὰ ἀγαθὰ καὶ τὰς νόσους.
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γναφείωι ὁδὸς εὐθεῖα καὶ σκολιὴ μία ἐστί, φησί, καὶ ἡ αὐτή.
The straight and the crooked path of the fuller’s comb is one and the same.
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ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή.
The way up and the way down is one and the same.
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θάλασσα ὕδωρ καθαρώτατον καὶ μιαρώτατον, ἰχθύσι μὲν πότιμον καὶ σωτήριον, ἀνθρώποις δὲ ἄποτον καὶ ὀλέθριον.
The sea is the purest and the impurest water. Fish can drink it, and it is good for them; to men it is undrinkable and destructive.
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ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάνατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες.
Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.
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[ἔνθα δ’ ἐόντι] ἐπανίστασθαι καὶ φύλακας γίνεσθαι ἐγερτὶ ζώντων καὶ νεκρῶν.
... that they rise up and become the wakeful guardians of the quick and dead.
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τὰ δὲ πάντα οἰακίζει Κεραυνός
It is the thunderbolt that steers the course of all things.
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καλεῖ δὲ αὐτὸ χρησμοσύνην καὶ κόρον
Fire is want and surfeit.
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Only the quoted names want/surfeit and their reporting formula are paired; the later cosmological explanation is separate
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πάντα γάρ, φησί, τὸ πῦρ ἐπελθὸν κρινεῖ καὶ καταλήψεται .
Fire in its advance will judge and convict all things.
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ὁ θεὸς ἡμέρη εὐφρόνη, χειμὼν θέρος, πόλεμος εἰρήνη, κόρος λιμός , ἀλλοιοῦται δὲ ὅκωσπερ 〈πῦρ〉, ὁπόταν συμμιγῆι θυώμασιν, ὀνομαζεται καθ’ ἡδονὴν ἑκάστου.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger; but he takes various shapes, just as fire, when it is mingled with spices, is named according to the savour of each.
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sic〈ut〉 aranea, ait, stans in medio telae sentit, quam cito musca aliquem filum suum corrumpit itaque illuc celeriter currit quasi de fili perfectione dolens, sic hominis anima aliqua parte corporis laesa illuc festine meat quasi impatiens laesionis corporis, cui firme et proportionaliter iuncta est.
Wie die Spinne, die in der Mitte ihres Netzes sitzt, merkt, sobald eine Fliege irgend einen Faden ihres Netzes zerstört, und darum schnell dahin eilt, als ob sie um die Herstellung des Fadens sich härmte, so wandert des Menschen Seele bei der Verletzung irgend eines Körperteils rasch dahin, als ob sie über die Verletzung des Körpers, mit dem sie fest und nach einem bestimmten Verhältnis verbunden ist, ungehalten sei.
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Hisdosus Scholasticus ad Chalcid. Plat. Tim. [cod. Paris. I. 8684 s. XII f. 2] ita vitalis calor a sole procedens omnibus quae vivunt vitam subministrat. cui sententiae Heraclitus adquiescens optimam similitudinem dat de aranea ad animam, de tela araneae ad corpus. sic〈ut〉 aranea, ait, stans in medio telae sentit, quam cito musca aliquem filum suum corrumpit itaque illuc celeriter currit quasi de fili perfectione dolens, sic hominis anima aliqua parte corporis laesa illuc festine meat quasi impatiens laesionis corporis, cui firme et proportionaliter iuncta est.
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καὶ διὰ τοῦτο εἰκότως αὐτὰ ἄκεα Ἡ. προσεῖπεν
(Herakleitos fittingly called religious rites) cures (for the soul).
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Published passage: Herakleitos, fragment 129; Iamblichus, On the Mysteries I.11
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Iambl. de myst. I 11 καὶ διὰ τοῦτο εἰκότως αὐτὰ ἄκεα Ἡ. προσεῖπεν ὡς ἐξακεσόμενα τὰ δεινὰ καὶ τὰς ψυχὰς ἐξάντεις ἀπεργαζόμενα τῶν ἐν τῆι γενέσει συμφορῶν.
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θυσιῶν τοίνυν τίθημι διττὰ εἴδη· τὰ μὲν τῶν ἀποκεκαθαρμένων παντάπασιν ἀνθρώπων, οῖα ἐφ’ ἑνὸς ἄν ποτε γένοιτο σπανίως, ὥς φησιν Ἡ., ἤ τινων ὀλίγων εὐαριθμήτων ἀνδρῶν· τὰ δ’ ἔνυλα κτλ.
I distinguish two kinds of sacrifices; those of men altogether purified, which would occur rarely, as Herakleitos says, in the case of a single individual, or of some very few men easily counted; secondly, those that are material
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On the Mysteries · V 15
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— V 15 θυσιῶν τοίνυν τίθημι διττὰ εἴδη· τὰ μὲν τῶν ἀποκεκαθαρμένων παντάπασιν ἀνθρώπων, οῖα ἐφ’ ἑνὸς ἄν ποτε γένοιτο σπανίως, ὥς φησιν Ἡ., ἤ τινων ὀλίγων εὐαριθμήτων ἀνδρῶν· τὰ δ’ ἔνυλα κτλ.
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Ἡ. παίδων ἀθύρματα νενόμικεν εἶναι τὰ ἀνθρώπινα δοξάσματα.
Kinderspiele nannte er die menschlichen Gedanken.
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— de anima [Stob. ecl. n II 1, 16] πόσωι δὴ οὖν βέλτιον Ἡ. παίδων ἀθύρματα νενόμικεν εἶναι τὰ ἀνθρώπινα δοξάσματα.
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μεμνῆσθαι δὲ καὶ τοῦ ἐπιλανθανομένου ἦι ἡ ὁδὸς ἄγει.
And think too of him who forgets whither the way leads
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Marc. Anton. IV 46 (nach 76) μεμνῆσθαι δὲ καὶ τοῦ ἐπιλανθανομένου ἦι ἡ ὁδὸς ἄγει.
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— — ὧι μάλιστα διηνεκῶς ὁμιλοῦσι λόγωι τῶι τὰ ὅλα διοικοῦντι, τούτωι διαφέρονται, καὶ οἶς καθ’ ἡμέραν ἐγκυροῦσι, ταῦτα αὐτοῖς ξένα φαίνεται.
and that men quarrel with that with which they are most constantly in communion, the reason which governs the universe; and the things which they daily meet with seem to them strange
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Meditations · IV 46
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— — ὧι μάλιστα διηνεκῶς ὁμιλοῦσι λόγωι τῶι τὰ ὅλα διοικοῦντι, τούτωι διαφέρονται, καὶ οἶς καθ’ ἡμέραν ἐγκυροῦσι, ταῦτα αὐτοῖς ξένα φαίνεται.
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— — οὐ δεῖ ὥσπερ καθεύδοντας ποιεῖν καὶ λέγειν· καὶ γὰρ καὶ τότε δοκοῦμεν ποιεῖν καὶ λέγειν.
and consider that we ought not to act and speak as if we were asleep, for even in sleep we seem to act and speak
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Meditations · IV 46
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— — οὐ δεῖ ὥσπερ καθεύδοντας ποιεῖν καὶ λέγειν· καὶ γὰρ καὶ τότε δοκοῦμεν ποιεῖν καὶ λέγειν.
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— — οὐ δεῖ 〈ὡς〉 παῖδας τοκεώνων, τοῦτ’ ἔστι κατὰ ψιλόν· καθότι παρειλήφαμεν.
and that + we ought not, like children who learn from their parents, simply to act and speak as we have been taught. +
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Meditations · IV 46
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— — οὐ δεῖ 〈ὡς〉 παῖδας τοκεώνων, τοῦτ’ ἔστι κατὰ ψιλόν· καθότι παρειλήφαμεν.
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τοὺς καθεύδοντας οἶμαι ὁ ῾Ἡ. ἐργάτας εἶναι λέγει καὶ συνεργοὺς τῶν ἐν τῶι κόσμωι γινομένων.
as men also when they are asleep, of whom it is Heraclitus, I think, who says that they are laborers and co-operators in the things which take place in the universe.
George Long · Marcus Aurelius, The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, translated by George Long (first published 1862)How this fragment survives
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Meditations · VI 42
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— VI 42 τοὺς καθεύδοντας οἶμαι ὁ ῾Ἡ. ἐργάτας εἶναι λέγει καὶ συνεργοὺς τῶν ἐν τῶι κόσμωι γινομένων.
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ζῆι πῦρ τὸν ἀέρος θάνατον καὶ ἀὴρ ζῆι τὸν πυρὸς θάνατον, ὕδωρ ζῆι τὸν γῆς θάνατον, γῆ τὸν ὕδατος.
Fire lives the death of air, and air lives the death of fire; water lives the death of earth, earth that of water.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
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ψυχῆισι φάναι τέρψιν ἢ θάνατον ὑγρῆισι γενέσθαι. τέρψιν δὲ εἶναι αὐταῖς τὴν εἰς γένεσιν πτῶσιν, ἀλλαχοῦ δὲ φάναι ζῆν ἡμᾶς τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον καὶ ζῆν ἐκείνας τὸν ἡμέτερον θάνατον [Β 62].
Für die Seelen ist es Lust oder Tod naß zu werden. Die Lust bestehe aber in ihrem Eintritt in das Leben. Anderswo aber sagt er: Wir leben jener, der Seelen, Tod und jene leben unsern Tod.
German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906)How this fragment survives
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On the Cave of the Nymphs · 10
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Numen. fr. 35 Thedinga bei Porphyr. antr. nymph. 10
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Numenius, as reported by Porphyry, supplies the interpretation of moisture as a fall into becoming
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Numen. fr. 35 Thedinga bei Porphyr. antr. nymph. 10 ὅθεν καὶ Ἡράκλειτον ψυχῆισι φάναι τέρψιν ἢ θάνατον ὑγρῆισι γενέσθαι. τέρψιν δὲ εἶναι αὐταῖς τὴν εἰς γένεσιν πτῶσιν, ἀλλαχοῦ δὲ φάναι ζῆν ἡμᾶς τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον καὶ ζῆν ἐκείνας τὸν ἡμέτερον θάνατον [Β 62] .
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ἦθος γὰρ ἀνθρώπειον μὲν οὐκ ἔχει γνώμας, θεῖον δὲ ἔχει.
The way of man has no wisdom, but that of God has.
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ἀνὴρ νήπιος ἤκουσε πρὸς δαίμονος ὅκωσπερ παῖς πρὸς ἀνδρός.
Man is called a baby by God, even as a child by a man.
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Against Celsus · VI 12 p. 82, 23
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εἰδέναι δὲ χρὴ τὸν πόλεμον ἐόντα ξυνόν, καὶ δίκην ἔριν, καὶ γινόμενα πάντα κατ’ ἔριν καὶ †χρεώμενα.
We must know that war is common to all and strife is justice, and that all things come into being and pass away (?) through strife.
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ἡ δὲ τῶν ῥητόρων εἰσαγωγὴ πάντα τὰ θεωρήματα πρὸς τοῦτ’ ἔχει τείνοντα καὶ κατὰ τὸν Ἡράκλειτον κοπίδων ἐστὶν ἀρχηγό ς.
Die rednerische Unterweisung zielt mit all ihren Lehrsätzen auf diesen Punkt und nach Heraklit ist sie Führer zur Abschlachtung.
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πιθήκων ὁ κάλλιστος αἰσχρὸς ἀνθρώπων γένει συμβάλλειν.
Der schönste Affe ist häßlich mit dem Menschengeschlechte verglichen.
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Plato Hipp. maior. 289 a πιθήκων ὁ κάλλιστος αἰσχρὸς ἀνθρώπων γένει συμβάλλειν.
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ἀνθρώπων ὁ σοφώτατος πρὸς θεὸν πίθηκος φανεῖται καὶ σοφίαι καὶ κάλλει καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις πᾶσιν.
the wisest of men will appear as an ape before God, both in wisdom and in beauty and in all other respects.
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It rests by changing.
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κάματός ἐστι τοῖς αὐτοῖς μοχθεῖν καὶ ἄρχεσθαι.
It is a weariness to labour for the same masters and be ruled by them.
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θυμῶι μάχεσθαι χαλεπόν· ὅ τι γὰρ ἂν θέληι, ψυχῆς ὠνεῖται.
It is hard to fight with one’s heart’s desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul.
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[116] — — 38 ἀλλὰ τῶν μὲν θείων τὰ πολλά, καθ’ Ἡράκλειτον, ἀπιστίηι διαφυγγάνει μὴ γιγνώσκεσθαι.
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
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βλὰξ ἄνθρωπος ἐπὶ παντὶ λόγωι ἐπτοῆσθαι φιλεῖ.
The fool is fluttered at every word.
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ταὐτό τ’ ἔνι ζῶν καὶ τεθνηκὸς καὶ τὸ ἐγρηγορὸς καὶ τὸ καθεῦδον καὶ νέον καὶ γηραιόν· τάδε γὰρ μεταπεσόντα ἐκεῖνά ἐστι κἀκεῖνα πάλιν μεταπεσόντα ταῦτα.
And it is the same thing in us that is quick and dead, awake and asleep, young and old; the former are shifted and become the latter, and the latter in turn are shifted and become the former.
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τοῖς ἐγρηγορόσιν ἕνα καὶ κοινόν κόσμον εἶναι, τῶν δὲ κοιμωμένων ἕκαστον εἰς ἴδιον ἀποστρέφεσθαι.
The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.
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πυρός τε ἀνταμοιβὴ τὰ πάντα καὶ πῦρ ἁπάντων ὅκωσπερ χρυσοῦ χρήματα καὶ χρημάτων χρυσός.
All things are an exchange for Fire, and Fire for all things, even as wares for gold and gold for wares.
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[41. 40] Plut. de E 18 p. 392b ποταμῶι γὰρ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμβῆναι δὶς τῶι αὐτῶι καθ’ Ἡράκλειτον [vgl. Β 12] οὐδὲ θνητῆς οὐσίας δὶς ἅψασθαι κατὰ ἕξιν 〈τῆς αὐτῆς〉· ἀλλ’ ὀξύτητι καὶ τάχει μεταβολῆς σκίδνησι καὶ πάλιν συνάγει καὶ πρόσεισι καὶ ἄπεισι.
For we cannot, as Heraclitus says, step twice into the same river, or twice find any perishable substance in the same state; but by the suddenness and swiftness of the change, it disperses and again gathers together, comes and goes.
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Plut. de E 18 p. 392b ποταμῶι γὰρ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμβῆναι δὶς τῶι αὐτῶι καθ’ Ἡράκλειτον [vgl. Β 12] οὐδὲ θνητῆς οὐσίας δὶς ἅψασθαι κατὰ ἕξιν 〈τῆς αὐτῆς〉· ἀλλ’ ὀξύτητι καὶ τάχει μεταβολῆς σκίδνησι καὶ πάλιν συνάγει (μᾶλλον δὲ οὐδὲ πάλιν οὐδ’ ὕστερον, ἀλλ’ ἅμα συνίσταται καὶ ἀπολείπει) καὶ πρόσεισι καὶ ἄπεισι.
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Σίβυλλα δὲ μαινομένωι στόματι … ἀγέλαστα καὶ ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ ἀμύριστα φθεγγομένη χιλίων ἐτῶν ἐξικνεῖται τῆι φωνῆι διὰ τὸν θεόν.
And the Sibyl, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her.
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ὁ ἄναξ, οὗ τὸ μαντεῖόν ἐστι τὸ ἐν Δελφοῖς, οὔτε λέγει οὔτε κρύπτει ἀλλὰ σημαίνει.
The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor hides his meaning, but shows it by a sign.
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ἥλιος γὰρ οὐχ ὑπερβήσεται μέτρα· εἰ δὲ μή, Ἐρινύες μιν Δίκης ἐπίκουροι ἐξευρήσουσιν.
The sun will not overstep his measures; if he does, the Erinyes, the handmaids of Justice, will find him out.
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ἀμαθίην γὰρ ἄμεινον κρύπτειν, ἔργον δὲ ἐν ἀνέσει καὶ παρ’ οἶνον .
It is best to hide folly; but it is hard in times of relaxation, over our cups.
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Table Talk
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Plut. Sympos. III pr. 1 p. 644 F
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Anthology · 175
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νέκυες γὰρ κοπρίων ἐκβλητότεροι.
Corpses are more fit to be cast out than dung.
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κύνες γὰρ καταβαΰζουσιν ὧν ἂν μὴ γινώσκωσι.
Dogs bark at every one they do not know.
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αἱ ψυχαὶ ὀσμῶνται καθ’ Ἅιδην.
Souls smell in Hades.
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εἰ μὴ ἥλιος ἦν, ἕνεκα τῶν ἄλλων ἄστρων εὐφρόνη ἂν ἦν.
If there were no sun it would be night, for all the other stars could do.
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[34] — Qu. Plat. 8, 4 p. 1007 D . . . περιόδους· ὦν ὁ ἥλιος ἐπιστάτης ὢν καὶ σκοπὸς ὁρίζειν καὶ βραβεύειν καὶ ἀναδεικνύναι καὶ ἀναφαίνειν μεταβολὰς καὶ ὥρας αἳ πάντα φέρουσι καθ’ Ἡράκλειτον κτλ.
periods; whereof since the sun is prefect and overseer, to determine, moderate, produce, and observe changes and seasons, which (according to Heraclitus) produce all things,
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I have sought for myself.
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ὀφθαλμοὶ γὰρ τῶν ὤτων ἀκριβέστεροι μάρτυρες.
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
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τῶι μὲν θεῶι καλὰ πάντα καὶ ἀγαθὰ καὶ δίκαια, ἄνθρωποι δὲ ἃ μὲν ἄδικα ὑπειλήφασιν ἃ δὲ δίκαια.
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
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ξυνὸν γὰρ ἀρχὴ καὶ πέρας ἐπὶ κύκλου περιφερείας.
In the circumference of a circle the beginning and end are common.
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τίς γὰρ αὐτῶν νόος ἢ φρήν; δήμων ἀοιδοῖσι πείθονται καὶ διδασκάλωι χρείωνται ὁμίλωι οὐκ εἰδότες ὅτι οἱ πολλοὶ κακοί, ὀλίγοι δὲ ἀγαθοί .
For what thought or wisdom have they? They follow the poets and take the crowd as their teacher, knowing not that there are many bad and few good.
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Ἡ. ἐντεῦθεν ἀστρολόγον φησὶ τὸν Ὅμηρον καὶ ἐν οἷς φησι ‘μοῖραν δ’ οὔ τινά φημι πεφυγμένον ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν‘ κτλ.
Homer sei ein Astrologe gewesen, schließt Heraklit aus dieser Stelle (Ilias 18, 251) ‘auch wurden in einer Nacht sie geboren’ und aus (6, 478) ‘Nie, so mein ich, entrann von den Sterblichen einer dem Schicksal’.
German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906)How this fragment survives
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4th edition (1922), Diels 1922, fragment 105; historical running text, transcribed by Open Greek and Latin / First 1KGreek.
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One day is like any other.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
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κακοὶ μάρτυρες ἀνθρώποισιν ὀφθαλμοὶ καὶ ὦτα βαρβάρους ψυχὰς ἐχόντων .
Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men if they have souls that understand not their language.
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ὁκόσων λόγους ἤκουσα, οὐδεὶς ἀφικνεῖται ἐς τοῦτο, ὥστε γινώσκειν ὅτι σοφόν ἐστι πάντων κεχωρισμένον.
Of all whose discourses I have heard, there is not one who attains to understanding that wisdom is apart from all.
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[108] — — 175 κρύπτειν ἀμαθίην κρέσσον ἢ ἐς τὸ μέσον φέρειν [vgl. B 95].
It is better to conceal ignorance than to put it forth into the midst.
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Anthology · 175
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ἀνθρώποις γίνεσθαι ὁκόσα θέλουσιν οὐκ ἄμεινον .
It is not good for men to get all they wish to get.
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Anthology · 176
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νοῦσος ὑγιείην ἐποίησεν ἡδύ, κακὸν ἀγαθόν, λιμὸς κόρον, κάματος ἀνάπαυσιν.
It is sickness that makes health pleasant; evil, good; hunger, plenty; weariness, rest.
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[107] — — 178 τὸ φρονεῖν ἀρετὴ μεγίστη, καὶ σοφίη ἀληθέα λέγειν καὶ ποιεῖν κατὰ φύσιν ἐπαΐοντας.
To be temperate is the greatest virtue; and it is wisdom to speak the truth and to act according to nature with understanding.
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ξυνόν ἐστι πᾶσι τὸ φρονέειν.
Thought is common to all.
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Anthology · 179
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ξὺν νόωι λέγοντας ἰσχυρίζεσθαι χρὴ τῶι ξυνῶι πάντων, ὅκωσπερ νόμωι πόλις, καὶ πολὺ ἰσχυροτέρως. τρέφονται γὰρ πάντες οἱ ἀνθρώπειοι νόμοι ὑπὸ ἑνὸς τοῦ θείου· κρατεῖ γὰρ τοσοῦτον ὁκόσον ἐθέλει καὶ ἐξαρκεῖ πᾶσι καὶ περιγίνεται.
Those who speak with understanding must hold fast to what is common to all as a city holds fast to its law, and even more strongly. For all human laws are fed by the one divine law. It prevails as much as it will, and suffices for all things with something to spare.
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ψυχῆς ἐστι λόγος ἑαυτὸν αὔξων.
Der Seele ist das Wort [d. i. der Verstand] eigen, das sich selbst mehrt.
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The precise force of logos here is uncertain
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Stob. flor. I 180a ψυχῆς ἐστι λόγος ἑαυτὸν αὔξων.
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[106] — — v 6 ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ φρονεῖν.
It is the part of all men to know themselves and to be temperate.
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ἀνὴρ ὁκόταν μεθυσθῆι, ἄγεται ὑπὸ παιδὸς ἀνήβου σφαλλόμενος, οὐκ ἐπαΐων ὅκη βαίνει, ὑγρὴν τὴν ψυχὴν ἔχων.
A man, when he gets drunk, is led by a beardless lad, tripping, knowing not where he steps, having his soul moist.
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αὔη ψυχὴ σοφωτάτη καὶ ἀρίστη.
The dry soul is the wisest and best.
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Arthur Fairbanks, The First Philosophers of Greece (1898), Greek text, p. 42; Heraclitus, Bywater-numbered fragment 74–76.
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Man’s character is his fate.
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ἠοῦς καὶ ἑσπέρας τέρματα ἡ ἄρκτος καὶ ἀντίον τῆς ἄρκτου οὖρος αἰθρίου Διός.
The limit of East and West is the Bear; and opposite the Bear is the boundary of bright Zeus.
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ἄξιον Ἐφεσίοις ἡβηδὸν ἀνάγξασθαι πᾶσι καὶ τοῖς ἀνήβοις τὴν πόλιν καταλιπεῖν, οἵτινες Ἑρμόδωρον ἄνδρα ἑωυτῶν ὀνήιστον ἐξέβαλον φάντες· ἡμέων μηδὲ εἶς ὀνήιστος ἔστω, εἰ δὲ μή, ἄλλη τε καὶ μετ’ ἄλλων.
The Ephesians would do well to hang themselves, every grown man of them, and leave the city to beardless lads; for they have cast out Hermodoros, the best man among them, saying, “We will have none who is best among us; if there be any such, let him be so elsewhere and among others.”
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Controversy.
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Suid. s. v. ἀμφισβατεῖν und ἀγχιβατεῖν: ἀγχιβασίην Ἡράκλειτος.
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φύσις δὲ κρύπτεσθαι φιλεῖ.
Nature loves to hide.
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ὥσπερ σάρμα εἰκῇ κεχυμένον ὁ κάλλιστος, φησὶν Ἡράκλειτος, [ὁ] κόσμος.
Die schönste Weltordnung ist wie ein aufs geratewohl hingeschütteter Kehrichthaufen.
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1922). Digital text: Open Greek and Latin, First1KGreek
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Theophr. Metaphys. 15 p. 7a 10 Usen. ἄλογον δὲ κἀκεῖνο δόξειεν ἄν, εἰ ὁ μὲν ὅλος οὐρανὸς καὶ ἕκαστα τῶν μερῶν ἅπαντ’ ἐν τάξει καὶ λόγωι, καὶ μορφαῖς καὶ δυνάμεσιν καὶ περιόδοις, ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἀρχαῖς μηθὲν τοιοῦτον, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ σάρμα εἰκῇ κεχυμένον ὁ κάλλιστος, φησὶν Ἡράκλειτος, [ὁ] κόσμος.
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Only the Heraclitus comparison is translated, not the preceding Theophrastus discussion
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καὶ ὁ κυκεὼν διίσταται 〈μὴ〉 κινούμενος.
Even the posset separates if it is not stirred.
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μὴ ἐπιλίποι ὑμᾶς πλοῦτος, Ἐφέσιοι, ἵν’ ἐξελέγχοισθε πονηρευόμενοι.
Möge es euch nie an Reichtum fehlen, Ephesier, auf daß eure Verlotterung sich deutlich zeigen könne
German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band II, Teil II (Berlin: Weidmann, 1910), Nachtrag zum ganzen Werk, p. VIIIHow this fragment survives
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Tzetzes ad Aristoph. Plut. 88 [Ambr., Paris.] τυφλὸν δὲ τὸν Πλοῦτον ποιεῖ ὡς οὐκ ἀρετῆς, κακίας δὲ παραιτίου. ὅθεν καὶ Ἡ. ὁ Ἐφέσιος ἀρώμενος Ἐφεσίοις, οὐκ ἐπευχόμενος· μὴ ἐπιλίποι ὑμᾶς πλοῦτος, ἔφη, Ἐφέσιοι, ἵν’ ἐξελέγχοισθε πονηρευόμενοι.
German visually verified against printed p. VIII, including the historical spelling “daß”. No final full stop is printed in this excerpt
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τὰ ψυχρὰ θέρεται, θερμὸν ψύχεται, ὑγρὸν αὐαίνεται, καρφαλέον νοτίζεται.
Cold things become warm, and what is warm cools; what is wet dries, and the parched is moisted.
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κατὰ λόγον δὲ ὡρέων συμβάλλεται ἑβδομὰς κατὰ σελήνην, διαιρεῖται δὲ κατὰ τὰς ἄρκτους, ἀθανάτου Μνήμης σημείω.
Nach dem Gesetze der Zeiten aber wird die Siebenzahl bei dem Monde zusammengerechnet, gesondert aber erscheint sie bei den Bären, den beiden Sternbildern unvergänglichen Gedenkens.
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Anatol. de decade p.36 Heiberg (Annales d’histoire. Congrès de Paris 1901. 5. section) κατὰ λόγον δὲ ὡρέων συμβάλλεται ἑβδομὰς κατὰ σελήνην, διαιρεῖται δὲ κατὰ τὰς ἄρκτους, ἀθανάτου Μνήμης σημείω.
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ἄλλως ἄ〈λλο ἀεὶ αὔξε〉ται πρὸς ὃ 〈ἂν ἦι ἐλλι〉πές.
Stets wächst das eine so, das andere so, je nach seinem Bedürfnis.
German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906)How this fragment survives
- Anonymous commentator on the Theaetetus
Commentary on Plato’s Theaetetus · 71,12 (on Theaetetus 152e)
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Anonym. in Plat. Τheaet.
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This papyrus passage is extensively restored. Angle brackets reproduce the approximate span of substantive restorations; the apparent Heraclitean quotation is itself partly reconstructed
The source’s 13 A6 is Diels 1922’s Epicharmus chapter (modern DK23), not Anaximenes. The A-item concordance has not been asserted
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Anonym. in Plat. Τheaet. [Berl. Klassikert. 2] 71, 12 zu p. 152 E [13 A 6] Ἐπίχαρμος ὁ 〈ὁμιλή〉σας τοῖς Πυθα〈γορείοις〉 ἄλλα τ〈έ〉 τινα ἐ〈πινενόη〉κεν δ〈ειν〉ὰ τ〈όν τε περὶ το〉ῦ αὐξο〈μένου λόγον〉. ἐφοδ〈εύει δὲ κατὰ τὸ〉 Ἡρα〈κλείτου〉 ἄλλως ἄ〈λλο ἀεὶ αὔξε〉ται πρὸς ὃ 〈ἂν ἦι ἐλλι〉πές. εἰ οὖν 〈μηδεὶς〉 〈παύε〉ται 〈ρέων καὶ ἀλ〉λ〈ἀτ〉των 〈τὸ εἶδος, αἱ〉 οὐσίαι ἄλλ〈οτε ἄλλαι〉 γίνονται 〈κατὰ συν〉εχῆ ῥύσιν.
German wording transcribed and checked against the printed 1906 edition, p. 80; line-end hyphenation and page breaks are joined. The matching original identifies the portion translated. The longer source witness is retained separately when the quotation is an excerpt
Only the short embedded Heraclitus saying is translated here. Diels marks the papyrus reading and restoration as uncertain
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εἰ θεοί εἰσιν, ἵνα τί θρηνεῖτε αὐτούς; εἰ δὲ θρηνεῖτε αὐτούς, μηκέτι τούτους ἡγεῖσθε θεούς.
Wenn es Götter gibt, weshalb beweint ihr sie? Wenn ihr sie aber beweint, haltet sie doch nicht mehr für Götter!
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Aristocritus Theos. 69 [nach B 5] ὁ αὐτὸς πρὸς Αἰγυπτίους ἔφη· εἰ θεοί εἰσιν, ἵνα τί θρηνεῖτε αὐτούς; εἰ δὲ θρηνεῖτε αὐτούς, μηκέτι τούτους ἡγεῖσθε θεούς.
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δαιμόνων ἀγάλμασιν εὔχονται οὐκ ἀκούουσιν, ὥσπερ ἀκούοιεν, οὐκ ἀποδιδοῦσιν, ὥσπερ ⟨ἀποδιδοῖεν⟩, οὐκ ⟨ἀπαιτοῦσιν, ὥσπερ⟩ ἀπαιτοῖεν.
Sie beten zu den Götterbildern, die nicht hören, als ob sie Gehör hätten, die nichts leisten, als ob sie leisten könnten, die nichts fordern, als ob sie fordern könnten.
German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1906), p. 80How this fragment survives
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— 74 ὅτι ὁ Ἡράκλειτος ὁρῶν τοὺς Ἕλληνας γέρα τοῖς δαίμοσιν ἀπονέμοντας εἶπεν· δαιμόνων ἀγάλμασιν εὔχονται οὐκ ἀκούουσιν, ὥσπερ ἀκούοιεν, οὐκ ἀποδιδοῦσιν, ὥσπερ οὐκ ἀπαιτοῖεν.
Greek and German visually checked on printed p. 80. Diels’s 1906 Greek has supplements marked with angle brackets. They produce the three parallel clauses translated in his German
The existing later source text lacks these supplements; it is retained separately. The German must be paired with the 1906 text, not silently claimed to translate the unsupplemented later text
This is a doubtful/spurious Heraclitean item transmitted by Aristocritus. No new authenticity claim is made
German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1906), p. 80 Published translation ↗
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German · Hermann Diels. Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1906), p. 80. Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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Πυθαγόρης Μνησάρχου ἱστορίην ἤσκησεν ἀνθρώπων μάλιστα πάντων καὶ ἐκλεξάμενος ταύτας τὰς συγγραφὰς ἐποιήσατο ἑαυτοῦ σοφίην, πολυμαθείην, κακοτεχνίην.
Pythagoras, son of Mnesarchos, practised inquiry beyond all other men, and choosing out these writings, claimed for his own wisdom what was but a knowledge of many things and an art of mischief.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, 2nd edition (1908)How this fragment survives
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, second edition, volume I (1906), p. 80.
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The printed edition has the single word κακοτεχνίην; a space introduced inside the word in the digital transcription is removed.
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non convenit ridiculum esse ita, ut ridiculus ipse videaris.
Man soll nicht so spaßhaft sein, daß man selbst zum Spaße wird.
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This is a late Latin gnomology; the attribution to Heraclitus is uncertain
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Gnomol. Monac. lat. I 19 (Caecil. Balb. Wölffin p. 18) non convenit ridiculum esse ita, ut ridiculus ipse videaris. Heraclitus dixit.
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οἴησις προκοπῆς ἐγκοπὴ προκοπῆς.
False opinion of progress is the stoppage of progress.
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Arthur Fairbanks, The First Philosophers of Greece (1898), Greek text, p. 56; Heraclitus, Bywater-numbered fragment 134.
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Fairbanks prints the expanded wording οἴησις προκοπῆς ἐγκοπὴ προκοπῆς; his historical translation is reproduced with that Greek reading
Published passage: Herakleitos, fragment 134 (Bywater numbering)
All existing modern-language translation text is preserved. The same quoted ancient passage remains paired.
Fairbanks’s historical Greek is used here because its wording agrees with the published translation; the different Diels reading is not substituted.
Additional source context is not reproduced here because its complete text has not been checked against the cited historical edition. The paired ancient text and historical translation are retained.
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English · Arthur Fairbanks. Arthur Fairbanks, The First Philosophers of Greece (1898). Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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τιμαὶ θεοὺς καὶ ἀνθρώπους καταδουλοῦνται.
Ehrenbezeugungen verknechten Götter und Menschen.
German · Hermann Diels · Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906)How this fragment survives
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Preserved in a late collection of maxims; attribution to Heraclitus is uncertain
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— Vatic. 743 n. 312 Sternb. τιμαὶ θεοὺς καὶ ἀνθρώπους καταδουλοῦνται.
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ἄνθρωποι κακοὶ ἀληθινῶν ἀντίδικοι.
Böse Menschen sind die Widersacher der Wahrhaftigen.
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The reference of ἀληθινῶν is uncertain: it may refer to persons or things
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—— 313 ἄνθρωποι κακοὶ ἀληθινῶν ἀντίδικοι.
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[135] —— 314 τὴν παιδείαν ἕτερον ἥλιον εἶναι τοῖς πεπαιδευμένοις.
Their education is a second sun to those that have been educated.
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, fourth edition, volume I (1922), p. 104; title and text directly verified in the UNC scan.
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Published passage: Herakleitos, Bywater fragment 135
The shared Greek of the main option and its Diels 1922 alternate is corrected against the 1922 printed page; πεπαιδευμένοις replaces the digital misreading πεπαιδευμἐνοις. Quotation boundaries and historical translations remain unchanged. The same accent was independently verified in Diels 1906, p. 80.
The printed form πεπαιδευμένοις replaces a transcription error in the breathing or accent.
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[137] —— 315 συντομωτάτην ὁδὸν ἔλεγεν εἰς εὐδοξίαν τὸ γενέσθαι ἀγαθόν.
The same one was wont to say that the shortest way to glory was to become good.
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ψυχαὶ ἀρηίφατοι καθερώτεραι ἢ ἐνὶ νούσοις.
Seelen im Kriege gefallen sind reiner als Seuchen erlegene.
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2nd edition, volume I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1906), p. 81, chapter 12 B136 (modern DK 22 B136)
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The editorial parenthesis “(so)” in Diels’s printed text is omitted from the Greek quotation. The transmitted spelling καθερώτεραι is retained.
The quoted Greek and the historical German translation cover the same saying; the German translation is unchanged.
Diels prints the editorial German parenthesis “(so)” after καθερώτεραι, indicating that the unusual spelling is as transmitted. It is omitted from the reading text; the Greek spelling is retained.
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2nd edition, volume I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1906), p. 81, chapter 12 B136 (modern DK 22 B136)
The quoted Greek and the historical German translation cover the same saying; the German translation is unchanged.
The digital transcription “(20)” is corrected to the printed editorial “(so)”. Diels’s parenthesis is retained here as source apparatus, outside the paired reading.
The bracketed reference marker [0] is excluded from the continuous source text, as it is from the display markup. The ancient quotation and its editorial (so) remain; the printed reference apparatus can be consulted in the linked scan.
Schol. Epictet. Bodl. p. LXXI Schenkl Ἡρακλείτου· ψυχαὶ ἀρηίφατοι καθερώτεραι (so) ἢ ἐνὶ νούσοις.
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German · Hermann Diels. Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2. Auflage, Band I (1906). Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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ἔστι γὰρ εἱμαρμένα πάντως . . .
For it is wholly destined …
George Thomas White Patrick · The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature (Baltimore: N. Murray, 1889), p. 100How this fragment survives
- Stobaeus
Anthology · I 5, 15 p.78, 11
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Stob. ecl. I 5, 15 p.78, 11
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1922). Digital text: Open Greek and Latin, First1KGreek
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Only the surviving incipit is displayed. Patrick prints an unfinished line and explicitly states that the rest is wanting. His long dash is normalized to an ellipsis; nothing has been supplied for the lost continuation.
Patrick’s fragment LXIII is the incipit at DK 22 B137. It is not a translation of a lost complete sentence or of the longer surrounding explanation about fate.
Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1922). Digital text: Open Greek and Latin, First1KGreek View original source ↗
English: George Thomas White Patrick · The Fragments of the Work of Heraclitus of Ephesus on Nature (Baltimore: N. Murray, 1889), p. 100 Published translation ↗
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[46] — eth. Nic. Θ 2. 1155b 4 Ἡ. τὸ ἀντίξουν συμφέρον καὶ ἐκ τῶν διαφερόντων καλλίστην ἁρμονίαν καὶ πάντα κατ’ ἔριν γίνεσθαι [s. Β 80].
Opposition unites. From what draws apart results the most beautiful harmony. All things take place by strife.
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- Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics · Θ 2. 1155b 4
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- Aristoteles meteor. B 2. 355a 13
- — de sensu 5. 443a 23
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Published passage: Herakleitos, Bywater fragment 46
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[77] ——— 143 (II 310, 21) ἄνθρωπος ἐν εὐφρόνηι φάος ἅπτεται ἑαυτῶι ἀποθανών, [ἀποσβεσθεὶς ὄψεις], ζῶν δέ· ἅπτεται τεθνεῶτος εὕδων, ἀποσβεσθεὶς ὄψεις, ἐγρηγορὼς ἅπτεται εὕδοντος.
"Man touches night in himself, when dead and his light quenched; and alive, when he sleeps he touches the dead; and awake, when he shuts his eyes, he touches the sleeper."
William Wilson · Clement of Alexandria, translated by William Wilson, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. II (1885)How this fragment survives
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Published passage: Clement, Stromata 4.22 (DK 4.143)
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[132] —— τήν τε οἴησιν ἱερὰν νόσον ἔλεγε καὶ τὴν ὅρασιν ψεύδεσθαι.
He was wont to say that false opinion is a sacred disease, and that vision is deceitful.
Arthur Fairbanks · Arthur Fairbanks, The First Philosophers of Greece (1898), Herakleitos fragmentsHow this fragment survives
- Diogenes Laertius
Lives of Eminent Philosophers · 7
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Published passage: Herakleitos, Bywater fragment 132
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[116] — — 38 ἀλλὰ τῶν μὲν θείων τὰ πολλά, καθ’ Ἡράκλειτον, ἀπιστίηι διαφυγγάνει μὴ γιγνώσκεσθαι.
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
Several hands; revised Arthur Hugh Clough · Plutarch’s Lives, the translation commonly called Dryden’s, corrected and revised by Arthur Hugh Clough (1859)How this fragment survives
- Plutarch
Coriolanus · 38
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Published passage: Plutarch, Coriolanus 38
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English · Several hands; revised Arthur Hugh Clough. Plutarch’s Lives, the translation commonly called Dryden’s, corrected and revised by Arthur Hugh Clough (1859).. Default reading. Published translation ↗ Paired original ↗
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[34] — Qu. Plat. 8, 4 p. 1007 D . . . περιόδους· ὦν ὁ ἥλιος ἐπιστάτης ὢν καὶ σκοπὸς ὁρίζειν καὶ βραβεύειν καὶ ἀναδεικνύναι καὶ ἀναφαίνειν μεταβολὰς καὶ ὥρας αἳ πάντα φέρουσι καθ’ Ἡράκλειτον κτλ.
periods; whereof since the sun is prefect and overseer, to determine, moderate, produce, and observe changes and seasons, which (according to Heraclitus) produce all things,
R. Brown; revised William W. Goodwin · Plutarch’s Morals, vol. 5, translated by several hands, corrected and revised by William W. Goodwin (1911 reprint of the nineteenth-century revision of the 1684–1694 translation)How this fragment survives
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Published passage: Plutarch, Platonic Questions 8.4, 1007d
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[108] — — 175 κρύπτειν ἀμαθίην κρέσσον ἢ ἐς τὸ μέσον φέρειν [vgl. B 95].
It is better to conceal ignorance than to put it forth into the midst.
Arthur Fairbanks · Arthur Fairbanks, The First Philosophers of Greece (1898)How this fragment survives
- Stobaeus
Anthology · 175
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Published passage: Herakleitos, fragment 109 (Bywater numbering)
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[107] — — 178 τὸ φρονεῖν ἀρετὴ μεγίστη, καὶ σοφίη ἀληθέα λέγειν καὶ ποιεῖν κατὰ φύσιν ἐπαΐοντας.
To be temperate is the greatest virtue; and it is wisdom to speak the truth and to act according to nature with understanding.
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- Stobaeus
Anthology · 178
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Published passage: Herakleitos, Bywater fragment 107
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[106] — — v 6 ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ φρονεῖν.
It is the part of all men to know themselves and to be temperate.
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- Stobaeus
Anthology · v 6
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[135] —— 314 τὴν παιδείαν ἕτερον ἥλιον εἶναι τοῖς πεπαιδευμένοις.
Their education is a second sun to those that have been educated.
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, fourth edition, volume I (1922), p. 104; title and text directly verified in the UNC scan.
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Published passage: Herakleitos, Bywater fragment 135
The shared Greek of the main option and its Diels 1922 alternate is corrected against the 1922 printed page; πεπαιδευμένοις replaces the digital misreading πεπαιδευμἐνοις. Quotation boundaries and historical translations remain unchanged. The same accent was independently verified in Diels 1906, p. 80.
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Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, fourth edition, volume I (1922), p. 104; title and text directly verified in the UNC scan. View original source ↗
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[137] —— 315 συντομωτάτην ὁδὸν ἔλεγεν εἰς εὐδοξίαν τὸ γενέσθαι ἀγαθόν.
The same one was wont to say that the shortest way to glory was to become good.
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